1. “Unequal combinations are always disadvantageous to the weaker side.”
2. “The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.”
3. “True wisdom consists of tracing effects to their causes.”
4. “Silence gives consent.”
5. “Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.”
6. “It has been well observed that few are better qualified to give others advice than those who have taken the least of it themselves.”
7. “The first blow is half the battle.”
8. “You can preach a better sermon with your life than your lips.”
9. “Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.”
10. “Wealth accumulates, and men decay.”
11. “Error is always talkative.”
12. “Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.”
13. “The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.”
14. “He who fights and runs away may live to fight another day.”
15. “People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.”
16. “The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.”
17. “Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.”
18. “The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found, at last, to be of our own producing.”
19. “There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.”
20. “Crimes generally punish themselves.”
21. “When a person has no need to borrow they find multitudes willing to lend.”
22. “Ridicule has even been most powerful enemy of enthusiasm, and properly the only antagonist that can be opposed to it with success.”
23. “It is not easy to recover an art when once lost.”
24. “Prudery is ignorance.”
25. “We seldom speak of the virtue which we have, but much oftener of that which we lack.”
26. “Taste is the power of relishing or rejecting whatever is offered for entertainment of the imagination.”
27. “People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.”
28. “Mortifications are often more painful than real calamities.”
29. “If one wishes to become they must appear rich.”
30. “Ask me no questions, and I’ll tell you no lies.”
